Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose Post-master-General Farley had prepared a sweeping executive order which the President signed along with a recommendation that the next session of Congress enact permanent legislation to the same end. Without bothering to study the President's order closely Democratic leaders throughout the land groaned in loud dismay at what they took to mean the summary loss of their best patronage. But still with them was a helpful device known as the Rule of Three. Postmasterships are divided into four grades depending upon the annual receipts of their offices: first class, receipts above $40,000; second class...
...each man to make a satisfying dinner. The University Comptrollers however, went in strongly for lamb, just as our present stewards have recently done well by the strawberry trade, and the students quickly tired of the new regime. They crowded around the Steward's rooms and set up loud bleatings and baaings until the offending lamb was varied with other meats and vegetables. But the food continued poor in quality, and the "Butter Rebellion' 'was soon under way. Tutors were hissed day and night and indignation meetings were held in the holy precincts of Holden Chapel where it was resolved...
...family castle to Vincent Bendix for $3,000,000. That aviation and auto accessory tycoon listed it in the telephone book as "The Bendix Galleries," after adding Rembrandts and Christys. He modernized the elevator, installed a barber's chair for his own use and gave many a loud party. Later he passed it on to a syndicate for the amount of the mortgage...
...convoy of 60 Dutch seaplanes celebrating the 20th birthday of the Royal Dutch Air Force with a mass formation of their own. Down came the first black triad, led by the plane labelled I-BALB (Balbo's), to a neat landing in the Zuider Zee. Loud cheers from the throngs on the dikes. Down came the next led by I-PELL (Pellegrini). Then the first red group-I-DINI (Captain Baldini at the controls). Inexplicably the leading red plane smacked the water like a cannonball, somersaulted once, settled into the mud. Captain Baldini and three crewmen were fished...
...readers of Without Music should be expected to echo the comment of Robert Benchley in his introduction: ". . . It makes me feel better about having laughed so loud at Dwight Fiske in night clubs. I always have had a suspicion that I was drunk. Now I know that I was merely appreciative...